Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-11-24
FOREIGN.

LAPAn positively denies that President
Grevy will resign.
AN earthquake shock is reported in
Northern Italy, without fatal results.
The condition of the crown prince of
Germany is steadily growing worse.
Hope Of the recovery of the Crown
Prince of Germany from his malady has
been abandoned
FIFTEEN members of the Irish National
league have been sentenced at Kilrush. to
one months imprisonment at hard labor.
TEE government has notified the Rus
sian press to be guarded In their com
m ents on Germany.
THE czar of Russia and his wife are
about to make visit of state to the en-
peror of Germany, in Berlin.
FoUR thousand Chinese Iaborers are
said to have been dlowned while repair
ing embankments near Shanghai.
EIGHTEEN young army officers in Russia
have been convicted of com plicity in
| revolutionary plot and been sent into ST.
berian exile.
IT is reported that the British govern
ment will swear in 10000 special con-
stables in order to check further riots in
London.
The steamer Wah- Young has been de-
stroyed by fire in the Canton river. About
four hundred passengers are supposed to
have been lost.
The houses of many prominent people
in Paris are being searched by the police,
and documents have been seized which
contain startling revelations in reference
to the traffic in decorations.
FIRE in the city of Brussels, Belgium,
Sunday night. Destroyed she Government
AgrioulturalP dild ng, and other public
edifces had arrow escape
SPAIN has seized the IslaLd of Pereiil,
near Ceuta, on which she intends to erect
lighthouse. The Moors are excited
over the seizure.
M. HENRI RooHEFoRT, the editor of the
Intransigeant, has fought duel with
swords with M. Marmack, the editor of
the Cri du Peuple. The latter was wound
ed. The encounter was the result OF a
quarrel over general Boulanger.
GENERAL BoULANGER, the troublesome
French army officer who was recently
sentenced to prisonment for insubor-
diaation, has returned to Paris, his term
of i'm Imprisonment having expired. He is
| at prese at the dangerous man of France.
In the French chamber of deputies M.
Falliers, minister of the interior, declared
that the government would never permit
the display of red flags, which he charac-
terized as emblems of revolt.
THREE of the persons concerned in the
scandalous sale of Legion of Honor dec
orations in France-one army officer and
two women-have been convicted of the
crime and sentenced to heavy fines and
i'm prisonment. The case of President
Grevy's son-in-law remains to be disposed
of.
IT is reported in, Vera Cruz that Eng
lish capital has been raised for railway
which will start from the line of the Vera
Cruz Railway and run through to the
Pacific coast, termination at Acapulco,
thus furnishing an inter oceanic route
wholly under English control.
The story that the bomb thrower had
been found ID New York City is as entir-
ly exploded as the bomb itself. A man
aykof, in Sing Sing prison, under a
conviction for arson, declared that one
Shultz had confessed that he (Shultz)
threw the haymarket bomb It was as
certained that Shultz vas the principal
witness against Maykeff at tue latter's
trial, and that he was not in Chicago at
OF near the time of the Haymarket riot.